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  • The AWK Programming Language, 2nd Edition Early Release

    From J Naman@21:1/5 to All on Tue Aug 1 16:37:34 2023
    A web search revealed: The AWK Programming Language, 2nd Edition
    by Alfred V. Aho, Brian W. Kernighan, Peter J. Weinberger
    Released September 2023
    Publisher(s): Addison-Wesley Professional
    ISBN: 9780138269876 240 pages
    "Read it now on the O’Reilly learning platform with a 10-day free trial."

    https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/the-awk-programming/9780138269876/
    It says "Early Release" and "read it now"
    (I do not work for oreilly, Addison-Wesley, and have zero financial gain from this book.)

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  • From Janis Papanagnou@21:1/5 to J Naman on Wed Aug 2 08:10:38 2023
    On 02.08.2023 01:37, J Naman wrote:
    A web search revealed: The AWK Programming Language, 2nd Edition
    by Alfred V. Aho, Brian W. Kernighan, Peter J. Weinberger
    Released September 2023
    Publisher(s): Addison-Wesley Professional
    ISBN: 9780138269876 240 pages
    "Read it now on the O’Reilly learning platform with a 10-day free trial."

    https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/the-awk-programming/9780138269876/
    It says "Early Release" and "read it now"
    (I do not work for oreilly, Addison-Wesley, and have zero financial gain from this book.)

    Thanks for the link.

    I abstained from registering, so I haven't read it. But from the
    table of contents we can see some changes:

    New chapters:
    2. Awk in Action
    2.1 Personal Computation
    2.2 Selection
    2.3 Transformation
    2.4 Summarization
    2.5 Personal Databases
    2.6 A Personal Library
    2.7 Summary

    3. Exploratory Data Analysis
    3.1 The Sinking of the Titanic
    3.2 Beer Ratings
    3.3 Grouping Data
    3.4 Unicode Data
    3.5 Basic Graphs and Charts
    3.6 Summary

    Reorganized chapter: 6.6 Recursive-Descent Parsing
    7.6 A Recursive-Descent Parser for Arithmetic Expressions
    7.7 A Recursive-Descent Parser for a Subset of Awk

    Relocated chapter: Ch. 2 "The AWK Language" went to
    Appendix A: Awk Reference Manual


    I cannot see whether the chapter texts changed or have been expanded.

    Janis

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  • From jeorge@21:1/5 to Janis Papanagnou on Wed Aug 2 17:00:06 2023
    On 8/2/23 12:10 AM, Janis Papanagnou wrote:
    I cannot see whether the chapter texts changed or have been expanded.

    They have. For example, chapter 3. Exploratory Data Analysis, contains
    "3.1 The Sinking of the Titanic" and "3.2 Beer Ratings", as well as "3.4 Unicode Data".

    Comparative page counts:
    - 1st edition: 210
    - 2nd edition: 275

    jeorge

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  • From jeorge@21:1/5 to jeorge on Wed Aug 2 17:16:59 2023
    On 8/2/23 5:00 PM, jeorge wrote:
    Comparative page counts:
     - 1st edition: 210
     - 2nd edition: 275

    Sorry -- PDF pages != print pages; 2nd edition on publishers wedsite
    says "240 pages" for the print edition.

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  • From J Naman@21:1/5 to All on Wed Aug 2 18:33:33 2023
    FYI: prices, dates, and gotchas
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  • From Janis Papanagnou@21:1/5 to jeorge on Thu Aug 3 09:02:28 2023
    On 03.08.2023 01:00, jeorge wrote:
    On 8/2/23 12:10 AM, Janis Papanagnou wrote:
    I cannot see whether the chapter texts changed or have been expanded.

    They have. For example, chapter 3. Exploratory Data Analysis, contains
    "3.1 The Sinking of the Titanic" and "3.2 Beer Ratings", as well as "3.4 Unicode Data".

    I listed ch.3 under [completely] "New chapters" in this new edition.


    Comparative page counts:
    - 1st edition: 210

    My [old] edition doesn't seem to have that chapter "Exploratory Data
    Analysis" at all. - What is this "1st edition"?

    Do I have a "0th edition" then?

    Janis

    - 2nd edition: 275

    jeorge

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  • From Janis Papanagnou@21:1/5 to jeorge on Thu Aug 3 09:22:27 2023
    On 03.08.2023 01:16, jeorge wrote:
    On 8/2/23 5:00 PM, jeorge wrote:
    Comparative page counts:
    - 1st edition: 210
    - 2nd edition: 275

    Sorry -- PDF pages != print pages; 2nd edition on publishers wedsite
    says "240 pages" for the print edition.

    From the "Contents" page I can only see new or reorganized chapters.

    Of course the page counts of editions likely differ, whether PDF or
    print, since there are completely new chapters (and also relocations
    and reorganizations of chapters).

    In my initial post I wrote:
    "I cannot see whether the chapter texts changed or have been expanded."
    and what I meat was the texts of the previously _existing_ chapters;
    whether they have been enhanced, corrected, rewritten, whatever, or
    just copied. I cannot see that.

    Janis

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  • From jeorge@21:1/5 to Janis Papanagnou on Thu Aug 3 07:12:15 2023
    On 8/3/23 1:22 AM, Janis Papanagnou wrote:
    In my initial post I wrote:
    "I cannot see whether the chapter texts changed or have been expanded."
    and what I meat was the texts of the previously_existing_ chapters;
    whether they have been enhanced, corrected, rewritten, whatever, or
    just copied. I cannot see that.

    Looks like they did a bit of both (I've got an epub of the pre-release
    of the new/2nd edition as well as a print copy of the original/1st edition).

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